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Alex Heeney

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Meadowlarks (2025) 88% EDIT “This chamber drama, set over the course of a long weekend, is full of star power... As they figure out how to collectively grieve and start looking toward the future, we do indeed see the birth of a family.” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Nika & Madison (2025) EDIT “Nika & Madison shows how terrifying the colonial justice system is, even at the best of times. Part procedural and part hangout movie, Nika & Madison is a showcase for Indigenous talent on screen and behind the camera.” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Aki (2025) EDIT “Melding the activist sensibilities and attention to the land of Falls Around Her with the more overtly experimental approach of Stellar, Naponse’s first foray into documentary is a thrilling look at a year in the life of Atikameksheng. ” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Silent Friend (2025) 100% EDIT “Brimming with ideas about human isolation and connection, the human fascination with trees and using science to understand the mysteries of the world, and how, as the saying goes, the more things change, the more they remain the same” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Lovely Day (2025) EDIT “Light on its feet like Falardeau’s best films, Lovely Day gently navigates the echoing trauma of immigration, the challenges of managing a broken family, and how wedding days are as much about the people around you as [the marriage].” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Fence (2025) 70% EDIT “Tensions rise, secrets are kept and unfolded, and the white men are in a complicated game of exploitation, perhaps even of each other. Blyth and McKenna-Bruce are key standouts in this very strong and seasoned cast. ” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Franz (2025) 76% EDIT “Franz is an unconventional biopic for an unconventional writer...a very Gothic story — you can always feel the walls and ceilings boxing Franz in — which makes it also feel like Franz’s story seen through his lens on the world.” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Currents (2025) 100% EDIT “[The Currents] is a dreamy glimpse into the psyche of a woman...full of psychologically rich spaces: dark corridors, billowing curtains, and, of course, currents — the watery [and] the emotional ones. ” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s a part of recent history ripe for revisiting, especially as audiences will have more compassion for these men than they have for themselves.” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s gorgeous to look at, with Ralph Fiennes giving yet another magnetic performance. But the way it handles queerness — and race, class, and other marginalized identities — left me asking: is this progress, or just a sanitized version of history?” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “ Sentimental Value circles back to themes Trier and Vogt have explored throughout their careers: siblings and parentification, houses as sites of memory and trauma, and the complicated roles that parents play in their children’s lives.” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (2024) 100% EDIT “Tasovská’s film is formally ambitious and accomplished — creative nonfiction at its best. She crafts a dynamic narrative through clever sound and pacing despite being built solely on still photographs.” – Seventh Row Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Elementary (2024) EDIT “"Keeping her camera at the height of the young students and close to them, Simon immediately helps us forge an empathic connection with the young people. The adults, by contrast, are giants whose top half often doesn’t fit into the frame."” – Seventh Row May 19, 2025 Full Review The Annihilation of Fish (1999) 76% EDIT “"The new 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 late-in-life screwball comedy offers this worthy film a new lease on life, much like its characters...The film’s zany premise gives way to a touching story of two lonely people."” – Seventh Row May 19, 2025 Full Review Nino (2025) 100% EDIT “Pauline Loquès’s heartrending feature debut, Nino, beautifully and viscerally captures that strange limbo you enter when you get a serious medical diagnosis, like treatable cancer...Loquès finds a thoughtful cinematic language for Nino’s alienation” – Seventh Row May 19, 2025 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% EDIT “The world of The Girl with the Needle is a sinister one, where husbands can disappear in the war without a trace, and you can be thrown out of your home or your job with a moment’s notice...one of the year’s hardest watches and also one of its very best.” – Seventh Row Mar 5, 2025 Full Review When Fall Is Coming (2024) 97% EDIT “François Ozon’s latest confection, When Fall is Coming, is the rare film centred on the perspective of a retired octogenarian, Michelle (the marvelous Hélène Vincent), and her relationship with her grandson (Garlan Erlos). ” – Seventh Row Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Langue Étrangère (2024) 83% EDIT “Burger sensitively tackles teenage alienation, mental health, and sexual fluidity with tenderness and a propulsive pace...If it gets a little messy in the latter section, that’s partly by design because it thoughtfully deals with messy issues.” – Seventh Row Mar 5, 2025 Full Review The Quiet Son (2024) 55% EDIT “The actors do their best with weak material that never probes too deeply into not just the characters’ psychology but the systems around them that shape their behaviour. ” – Seventh Row Mar 5, 2025 Full Review This Life of Mine (2024) 85% EDIT “Fillières’ hugely witty and very funny film tells Barberie’s story of trying to find a new lease on life with tenderness and aplomb.” – Seventh Row Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Crocodile Tears (2024) EDIT “An impressive debut film from Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon, Crocodile Tears is a horror-inflected story of a too-close relationship between a mother and her adult son...who is trying to break free from her clutches.” – Seventh Row Mar 5, 2025 Full Review No Other Land (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Collaboratively made with multiple directors, the powerful, urgent, and incisive No Other Land serves as an excellent introduction to the Israeli settler-colonial state in Palestine...The panoply of perspectives...is its greatest strength and weakness.” – Seventh Row Oct 5, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Like a lesser Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavendar Hill Mob is lightly class-conscious about the desperation for money in post-war Britain, relies heavily on the immensely talented Guinness’s performance, is queer-coded, and a highly amusing caper.” – Seventh Row Oct 5, 2024 Full Review Shoeshine (1946) 100% 4/5 EDIT “[Shoeshine] is still resonant, humanist, and infuriating today. It’s the story of a friendship torn apart by the cruel and indifferent adult world that cares little for children and less for the challenges of post-war poverty. ” – Seventh Row Oct 5, 2024 Full Review July Rhapsody (2002) 93% EDIT “Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody is a melodrama about marital discord with a light touch, where both partners explore other relationships.” – Seventh Row Oct 5, 2024 Full Review
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